Send this article to your social connections. Some of the country’s most historically influential women have called Boston home, like Abigail Adams, Phillis Wheatley, Louisa May Alcott, Clara ...

Concord, Massachusetts, has a vast literary past, being home to talents such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louisa May Alcott, Henry David Thoreau and Nathaniel Hawthorne Apart from their love of the ...

Bronson Alcott and Abigail May are married in Boston. Mrs. Alcott’s final illness begins. Mrs. Alcott dies. A woman who was pregnant at least eight times and bore five children was not credited in the ...